Film Analysis: Black Hawk Down

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Black Hawk Down is a movie about our attempt to capture Mohamed Farrah Aidid and the ensuing battle. The movie is a very visually pleasing movie that shows you some of the horrors of war and just shows you the cost of any war you decided to be worth fighting. It takes an American point of view on the conflict and portrays it in a very patriotic way, but it shows the heroics of the soldiers during the battle. The country of Somalia was faced with a foot shortage.

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